To see no pastime I what you would have
I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.

To him will I : out of these convertites
There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.
To DUKE SENIOR
You to your former honour I bequeath;
Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:
To ORLANDO
You to a love that your true faith doth merit:
To OLIVER ...

Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,
The duke hath put on a religious life
And thrown into neglect the pompous court?

Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at
any thing and yet a fool.

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?

And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?

But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the
quarrel on the seventh cause?

How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.

And how was that ta'en up?

Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the
motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in
the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.

There is, sure, another flood toward, and these
couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of
very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
make noise enough.

Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman
conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's
horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have
you no song, forester, for this purpose?

Which is he that killed the deer?

Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.

Yes, I have gained my experience.

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,
nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the
soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,
which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor
the lover's, which ...

Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.

I am so; I do love it better than laughing.

I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted
with thee.

Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.

And will you, being a man of your breeding, be
married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to
church, and have a good priest that can tell you
what marriage is: this fellow will but join you
together as they join wainscot; then one of you will
prove ...

Will you be married, motley?

Advancing
Proceed, proceed I'll give her.

Aside I would fain see this meeting.

Aside A material fool!

Aside O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove
in a thatched house!

I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good
Signior Love.

There I shall see mine own figure.

By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found
you.

The worst fault you have is to be in love.

You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of
Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and
we two will rail against our mistress the world and
all our misery.

You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been
acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them
out of rings?

What stature is she of?

I do not like her name.

Rosalind is your love's name?

I pray you, mar no more trees with writing
love-songs in their barks.

God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.

I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had
as lief have been myself alone.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the ...

An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.

Of what kind should this cock come of?

Why, I have eat none yet.

Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name,
When that I say the city-woman bears
The cost of princes on ...

What, for a counter, would I do but good?

It is my only suit;
Provided that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinion that grows rank in them
That I am wise. I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;
And they that are ...

O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,
And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which ...

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set ...

'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a
circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll
rail against all the first-born of Egypt.

Thus it goes:--
If it do come to pass
That any man turn ass,
Leaving his wealth and ease,
A stubborn will to please,
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:
Here shall he see
Gross fools as he,
An if he will come to me.